The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Linsenmaier collection. Part 1. Cleptes Latreille Author Rosa, Paolo Natur-Museum Luzern, Kasernenplatz 6, CH- 6003 Luzern, Switzerland. & Via Belvedere 8 / d I- 20881 Bernareggio (MB), Italy. Author Heim, René Natur-Museum Luzern, Kasernenplatz 6, CH- 6003 Luzern, Switzerland. & St. - Karli-Strasse 32 c, CH- 6004 Luzern, Switzerland. Author Bernasconi, Marco Valerio 0000-0003-0993-8049 Natur-Museum Luzern, Kasernenplatz 6, CH- 6003 Luzern, Switzerland. & Marco. Bernasconi @ lu. ch; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0993 - 8049 ernasconi@lu.ch text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-18 4881 1 54 72 journal article 7944 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.3 f74cc436-90c8-4bd8-b9f7-c88a53871978 1175-5326 4425716 74EF3FB7-70F2-4061-809B-1AB37F13526A Genus Cleptes Latreille, 1802 Although Mocsáry (1889) considered the genus Cleptes in Chrysididae , Cleptinae , all the following European authors of the XX century treated members of this genus in a separated family, Cleptidae ( Bischoff 1913 ; Trautmann 1927 ; Richards 1935 ; Berland & Bernard 1938 ; Móczár 1949 , 1951 , Benno 1950 ; Beaumont 1955 ; Linsenmaier 1951 ; Kusdas 1956 ). Linsenmaier (1959) was the first European entomologist to consider Cleptinae as a subfamily of Chrysididae . Linsenmaier (1959) included in this subfamily the genus Heterocoelia Dahlbom, 1854 , later transferred to the Bethylidae , subfamily Mesitiinae , by Móczár (1971) ; Walter Linsenmaier never faced with the American and Oriental Cleptinae genera Cleptidea Mocsáry, 1904 and Lustrina Kurian, 1955 . Linsenmaier (1959 , 1968 , 1987 , 1994 , 1999 ) described 16 species and two subspecies of Cleptes Latreille. All species are still considered valid ( Kimsey & Bohart 1991 ; Móczár 1997a , 1997b , 1998a , 1998b , 1998c , 2000a , 2000b , 2001 ), with the exception of Cleptes antakyensis Linsenmaier, 1968 , which was synonymised by Móczár (1997a) with Cleptes femoralis Mocsáry, 1890 . The status of Cleptes scutellaris gurunensis Linsenmaier, 1987 is doubtful ( Móczár 1997a ).